Government Theft Masquerading as Policy: The War on Your Property Rights

Government Theft Masquerading as Policy: The War on Your Property Rights

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
To me now is Tom Dewise. Here's the headline. Do
you think property rights still exist in America?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, I think again.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Brand new article over at americanpolicy dot org by Kathleen
but as the president of the American Policy Sitter, Tom
Dewize joins us to discuss this and more.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Hello Tom, Hello there, how.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Are you doing.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Great to have you back. Like that shirt you're wearing.
That's sharp, Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yeah. I like this a lot too.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, it's cool. I like it, all right, tell me
about this one. I know, I like it.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
I like the leather there, I like the white, and
then I like the leather with it. So they go,
it's sharp. A note to my wife, if you're watching bank,
you get me one of those for Christmas, baby. All right,
There is no way I can possibly count all the
ways our property is being stolen from us by our
so called government of the people, by the people for

(00:56):
the people. But we are losing our property rights at
breck break neck speed. As soon as we will soon
we will see property. If we don't put us soon,
we will be properly soon and soon we will be property.
If we don't put us. I don't know what that
means think there's a typo there. What she means is

(01:18):
we will be property. Oh yes, oh yeah, we're going
to be the property. Good. Okay, tell me more about this.
It comes out of what state?

Speaker 2 (01:27):
What state? In particularly? Is she talking about her She's
about the whole nation.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
About the whole nation. We property rights are under attack
in every community and every state. They you know, of course,
what they've been using for many years is the excuse
of climate change and all of that uh to uh.
You know, if we I have these environmentalists, you know,
get in my face and say, you know, if you
don't have a planet to stand on, it doesn't matter

(01:53):
how many rights you think you have, and people go,
oh golly gee, you know, and they start surrendering their
their liberties out of fear. That's the tactic. Right we're
finally starting to find with the new EPA leadership, they
are starting to back off of this climate change crisis.

(02:14):
And that's one of the good things that's happening right now.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
So thank you the Trump administration. I want to highlight,
you know, when they do good things. We want to say,
you know, we complain about some things, but hey, they're
doing a good job there that's the former congressman who's
heading up the EPA.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Right, Yes, sir, I believe so. Yeah, And they are,
you know, getting rid of all that. What we've had
here is these non governmental organizations that are coming out
of the World Economic Forum and of course the United Nations.
There's over twenty thousand of them that are operating under
those organizations. They have spread out around the world and

(02:51):
into every single city council, county, commissioned, state legislature. And
I've had city councilmen telling me they'll have more than
a hundred of these organizations. They are giving bringing in legislation.
They know exactly what grant money to go for to
put it in place, which also puts some money in
their pockets. And you have if you talk to your

(03:15):
city councilmen, and they'll sit there and say, well, there's
nothing we can do about it. This is just the
way it's done now. And they are they are surrounded
and they think that all government is doing this it's legitimate,
and it's not. And what we're finding is step by
step they are putting this global agenda in place, and
taking property rights is a major part of it. Because

(03:38):
I ask you a question. If you don't have your
own property to stand on in control, how do you
have a First Amendment right, a Second Amendment right, anything
else you don't? And this is leading to completely changing
our culture, changing our system of government, and property rights
is one of the main targets of it.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Here, she said, yesterday, I picked up a number of
stories about New York City's most recent tool to steal
land from the people under the guys of making property
affordable to the masses.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Before you go further, qright, imagine a.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Way to make property in one of the most expensive
cities in the world available to those who can hardly
afford to rent, all under the guys who making property
more affordable. One opponent and CORCAC describe the Community Opportunity
for Purchase Act as an act of systemic sabotage, one
that would transform the business of property ownership into a

(04:31):
bureaucratic labyrinth dominated by government approved intermediaries. Simply stated, it
says that if a qualified nonprofit shows interest in a building,
the owner must halt all negotiations while a lengthy, bureaucratically
bureaucratically processed is held during which the nonprofit assesses, organizes finances,

(04:52):
and eventually submits a competitive offer. Don't ask what a
competitive offer might be. So you're saying that if there's
a piece of land for sal a nonprofit steps up
and shows interest, like an n g O or a
community organization, everything that gets put on hold, then.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, they they apparently this is what they're looking at here,
that this is government control. That is not private property.
It is not where you owning the property have any
kind of say whatsoever goes on in it. And you
know this whole thing in New York, I mean, this
is absolute communism what these guys are putting together. And

(05:32):
he's using all these excuses that we've got to help
the poor, we've got to help the people, make it
better for them. It won't private property disappears, but you're
you're talking here about small landowners who are the you know,
they rent, they have rental property that they want to
rent to people, and they are now going to be
dictated to what that rent can be, and it's going

(05:56):
to put them out of business if they make it
too low that they can't afford it. And you know,
this is what happens. People will not have personal choice.
They are going to be dictated to how they're going
to live, where they're going to live, and what they're
going to pay for it.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Well, she says Tom Dewiz, that's you.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Obviously recently wrote an article on government takings organized theft
in the name of government that lists some of these
and more. We need to wake up as much of
the populace as possible to this trend. Understand that much
of these recent takings have been generated to fulfill Biden's
thirty by thirty, which is stealing thirty percent of the
land of water tonight stays to fulfill the Wildlands Project,

(06:36):
the genesis of a Genda twenty one twenty thirty Green
New Deal, Great Reset, waiting for a new duplicating and
overlapping project names to steal our land, thus our freedoms.
We've lost so much already, the question arises, how much
more can we lose before we are no longer free?

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Our country was found.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
On the idea of private property ownership, but as we
watch more and more land is gobbling up, gobbled up
on behalf of big business by the government.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Even a year or.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
So ago, you have thought that the folly of carbon
capture would have become a thing. Who'd ever thought, by
the way, that's still being fought in places like South
Dakota and so many others. So yeah, and the thing is,
I guess a lot of folks looking to move down
to Miami from New York. Well, I guess yesterday they

(07:22):
just elected a progressive to the mayor of New York,
a lady that I think is the first time Democrats
held the mayor's office there in thirty years. In fact,
I sent in the article was sent to me by
Padia Merimandi. And let me just read the article here.
It is the headline, Higgins, I guess she's the mayor elect.

(07:44):
I's Miami mayor's office with democratic socialist playbook.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
So that's Miami. I mean.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
So anyone thought they were going to go to Miami
to escape New York City and Mamdani lookout.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Yeah, you would think with all of the Cubans who
are living down in that area who escaped communism would
be standing up and stopping this. But this is what
they do. Step by step. Look at every single major
city in this country and what absolute holes they are
with the taxes, with the standard of living, the people

(08:18):
who have no homes to live in, on and on
and on. All of them are run by people using
this very you know process, and private property doesn't exist
in any of those places. It's it's in you know,
they'll say it is, but when you get right down
to it, when they can control it. What we've got

(08:39):
now across the country with farmers who don't want to
have carbon capture pipelines, don't want to have cell towers
and solar panels put on their land. And you have
in South Dakota and Iowa it's happening there with a
carbon capture pipeline. It's happening in other places. They're using

(08:59):
emine domain to come in and just take the land
that the eminent domain mentioned in the Constitution was only
for the urgent creation of roads or forts or things
like that back in those days. It had nothing to
do with helping private companies put together private projects to

(09:22):
take private land. That is just absolute organized theft. And
but you have this happening in almost every community across
the country. They just decide that's what we're going to do.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
She quotes Washington State Supreme Court Justice Richard B. Sanders.
I'm sure this is probably a long time ago. I
can't imagine he's a Supreme Court justice known to that state.
But he said, quote property in a thing consists not
merely in its ownership and possession, but in the unrestricted
right of use, enjoyment, and disposal. Anything which destroys any

(09:56):
of these elements of property to that extent, destroys the
property itself. The substantial value of property lies in its use.
If the right of us be denied, the value of
the property is annihilated, and ownership is rendered a barren right.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
In quote so true. And of course the coach.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
Richard Richard B. Sanders wrote that in nineteen ninety seven.
It was a direct response to the fact that with
the whole push for the climate change issues, the sustainable
development programs, they were getting more and more lawsuits that
had to do a private property, and they began to
discover they didn't really have a good definition of private property.

(10:39):
What are we talking about here? And so he wrote
that to answer that. The interesting thing about it is
that the one word in there, the unrestricted right of use.
You want to see their heads blow off, say that
I had a state legislator down in North Carolina who
wanted to use that quote vote to put some legislation together.

(11:04):
The NGOs organized went to every single mayor in the
state of North Carolina UH to ask them or pressure
them to oppose this law. And the argument that they
used was if someone has the right of unrestricted use

(11:25):
on their property, and I'm not kidding they used this
in every case. This was the example, someone's going to
put a smelly old pen farm next door to you,
and you know you're going to lose your your abilities
on your property to live on it. And they have
used that excuse over and over again. They really ate pigs, apparently,
but that's what they they used in that is to

(11:48):
stop that bill.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
So they come up with the most extreme analogy that
they can for a strong yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Yeah, And let me let me just say this the
UH the answer to this. Since the beginning of human settlements,
there have always been nusence laws. If somebody is doing
something on their property that affects your property, that you
have had the right to take them to court over that.
And what I've suggested to my audience is when I

(12:16):
spoke on this is, first of all, let us say
your neighbor's got a bright light that shines in your
bedroom window at night, or he's playing loud music or
you know something that's affecting your property. Today we find
it's solar panels that are covering everything next to you.
But you know, first of all, you walk over and
knock on his door and say, Charlie, can you turn

(12:37):
that light off? At night? You're you know, I can't sleep.
And if Charlie's a good guy, he says, oh my gosh,
I'm sorry, and he turns it off, and you don't
have any problem. That's neighbor to neighbor. If Charlie's a jerk,
you take him to court. And that's the way the
laws were set up to use this nuisance laws. So
somebody puts a smelly old pig farm next door to you,

(12:57):
you have an option to it. But uh, you know,
when you're when you're tutulitarian tyrants like these guys, then
you don't have that right it. Uh, you know, you
lose everything.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
And so they use an extreme example to get unthinking
people to.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Agree to the extreme right. Exactly, that's a pretty good line, logan.
I just gave.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
Give an extreme example to get unthinking people to agree
to the extreme There you go, Yeah, you might want
to tweet that one out, logan.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Uh, take a look.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
Here's the website, Americanpolicycenter dot org. Americanpolicy dot org is
actually the website americanpolicy dot org. Tom Dewiz is always
with his team over there, writing great articles you need
to keep up with, and there's more there, so go
check it out americanpolicy dot org.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
It's always Tom. Great to have you with us, my pleasure.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Anytime Tom Dewise check it in, folks, we'll be right
back